Check out this interview with Jack kerouac on the Steve Allen show, which includes a reading from On The Road & Visions of Cody accompanied by Allen on the piano.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzCF6hgE ... re=related[/youtube]
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Jack Kerouac on Steve Allen Show
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Good clip, think I've seen it b4 but always good to hear from the Founding Fathers --- on a side note, how good looking was Jack? Fucking hell, I'd do him. . . .
Sorry, I'm a musician but I still find the piano playing intrusive, irritating and belittling to the interviewee. Not only is he asking stupid questions he's not interested in the answers, he just wants to play cocktail twiddles over everything. Aaagh...
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Hi marc. Although it might look a little distracting, and even arogant, it is a classical interview technique designed to make the subject feel at ease - the music so that the atmosphere feelscasual, and the stupid questions to kind of break the ice a bit. Kind of a Bernard Pivot thing.Marc wrote:Sorry, I'm a musician but I still find the piano playing intrusive, irritating and belittling to the interviewee. Not only is he asking stupid questions he's not interested in the answers, he just wants to play cocktail twiddles over everything. Aaagh...
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